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...collision at sea between Andrea Doria and Stockholm directly involved some 2,000 people, but the details of how and why it happened were secrets known only to a handful of officers aboard both ships. Last week both sides finally told their stories-stories that differed so wildly on basic facts that they raised more questions than they answered...
...sailed a moderate sea with little wind and a shining moon. Though other ships reported fog off Nantucket that night, Stockholm insisted that "although there was a haze on the horizon, visibility was good." The liner's radar, "operating perfectly," indicated another vessel ten miles off. Soon Andrea Doria came into sight two miles away. "Although the vessels were in a position to pass safely port to port, red to red, Stockholm went to starboard to give even greater passing distance. Andrea Doria, however, suddenly closed out her red light, showed her green light and veered sharply...
...swift, accurate camera has superceded such labored reconstructions, as photographs of the Andrea Doria disaster show...
...Radar of these wave lengths is also used by shipboard radars designed to penetrate fog, was the type installed on the Andrea Doria and the Stockholm...
...Mexico City, 1942-46; Madrid since 1951). who in 1949 scored a world newsbeat on the Vatican archaeologists' claim to have found St. Peter's tomb beneath the cathedral's high altar in Rome; in the collision-sinking of the Italian liner Andrea Doria, off Nantucket (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...